● the Optional Protocol to the CRC on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts; ● the Optional Protocol to the CRC on a Communications Procedure (the CRC Committee may only receive communications in respect of States that have accepted this Optional Protocol to the CRC; by 2015, 20 States have done so, among them one from Africa (Gabon)); ● the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-Country Adoption; ● the 1954 UN Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons; and ● the 1961 UN Convention on the Prevention of Statelessness. 6